BNP Meeting Smashed
Durruti's 5th Column | 06.06.2006 09:44
On the 30th of May, a number of anti-fascists stopped a BNP.meeting in Starbeck, North Yorkshire.
The gathering was being addressed by David Exely and Nick Cass. Approximately 30 mins into the meeting the windows of the venue were put through with half-bricks. The speakers, who were sat inches away from the windows and trapped in by tables were showered in glass.
The fascist BNP obviously considered it safe enough to hold this meeting without security; this action should be a warning that it will never be safe to organise as fascists anywhere in Yorkshire and any such activity may be targeted at any time...Beware!
The gathering was being addressed by David Exely and Nick Cass. Approximately 30 mins into the meeting the windows of the venue were put through with half-bricks. The speakers, who were sat inches away from the windows and trapped in by tables were showered in glass.
The fascist BNP obviously considered it safe enough to hold this meeting without security; this action should be a warning that it will never be safe to organise as fascists anywhere in Yorkshire and any such activity may be targeted at any time...Beware!
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hehe
06.06.2006 13:09
anonymous
Well done
06.06.2006 15:19
Paul
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Not the right way
06.06.2006 16:00
This sort of action is always counter productive with groups like the BNP as they twist it round and use it for their own means. The BNP has spent a lot of time building its fake reputation as being a party representing the working class family of the UK, many of those tempted to support them will see this as a confirmation of the lies they tell about being repressed.
Al
As if on cue!
06.06.2006 17:12
Crowbar
You're full of good intentions I'm sure
06.06.2006 19:42
How many people at the BNP meeting are now going to think "bloody communist thugs, I wasn't sure about what the BNP had to say to begin with, but now I am defintately with them", I wonder.
No doubt I'll be refered to as a "liberal hippie scumbag" and suchlike by subequent commenters, but still, sometimes I feel the need to express my 2p worth, freedom of speech and all that...
Mr. Humph
Glad to be of service...
06.06.2006 20:16
Also, whether you agree with their policies or not, the BNP are a registered political party - what right do you or anyone else have to use violence to disrupt their meetings? Would you smash the windows at a Respect conference, or your local Indymedia meeting? I doubt it. You can't just go around throwing bricks at people because you disagree with their political opinions.
Out of interest, have you ever been sat next to/below a window when someone has smashed it? I have on two occasions (not in political meetings I might add) and it's not an experience I would wish on anyone, no matter how much I might dislike them.
I feel I'm wasting my time writing this though, as you'll almost certainly come back with some "witty" comment about the Tories (even though I'm not even a member of that party) or a tirade of general abuse.
Paul
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reportage or threat?
06.06.2006 22:32
marvinmazz
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Nice one
06.06.2006 22:49
Unfortunately, most of the criticism of militant anti-fascist actions like this seems to come from people who are safe enough behind their comfortable salaries and Guardian supplements to not have to worry about the divisive effects of the BNP.
I'm pleased to see people having the spine to stand up and defend their communities against the insidious spread of the BNP. Don't pander to the liberal sensibilities of the mainstream left... sort them out in whatever way you deem appropriate.
"Fists, stones, batons and the gun... with courage we shall beat those blackshirts down."
Yorkshire RASH
Where did this happen?
06.06.2006 23:01
Funny how any time some one posts on here about the fash getting some active opposition, there's a flood of whinging trolls (see above) crying about how awful it is...
Listen - working class communities need to protect their own interests, and that includes preventing the disease of fascism taking hold. A bit of broken glass is hardly worth fussing over, considering what these characters really deserve...
No Pasaran
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Oi Oi 69
Action - Reaction
07.06.2006 00:00
It certainly deters a lot of them unfortunately, and we're of a far higher calibre than your average fascist gobshite.
Chilli
Your all being foolish
07.06.2006 10:15
Co
Friends and comrades
07.06.2006 10:28
It is very much an issue of resources. The time and effort let alone the money required to do these things with any real impact is and has not been available.
People have not taken a serious and committed approach to domestic working-class organisation for as long as Blair has been attacking us. While time, energy and money has been pouring into (all be it very worthwhile) single issue campaigns, usually overseas and quite often in defence of the earth and or animals. there has been neglect in the one area that could ultimately give us the power to change everything for the better; A COHESIVE, UNITED AND REVOLUTIONARY WORKING-CLASS.
And where we have failed the BNP have exploited.
The thing to do now is to contact your local Antifa group. Offer your time, energy, money and IDEAS and help broaden the fight against fascism, instead of leaving it up to a small group of people with little other choice than to employ the swiftest yeilding tactics.
www.antifa.org.uk
Rudeboy
Congrats Leeds anti-fascists
07.06.2006 11:56
Well done to all involved.
No Pasaran!
Dublin Anti-Fascist
"Foolish"?
07.06.2006 13:35
Foolish
As it ever occured to you
07.06.2006 13:44
Also what threat to the ethnic minority community (as well as the working class as a whole) did that one meeting pose, where they were all in one place not beating the crap out of the nearest non-white available. All the BNP will say is that "we were holding this meeting not being a threat to anyone then these thugs go and brick us". If they were on the street trying to parade their filth (something they abandoned since Griffin took over, although the even more insignificant NF still does this) then maybe you would have a point.
Liberal middle class hippy wanker and proud.
Mr. Humph
Clarity
07.06.2006 14:06
Smash them and it becomes much easier foment revolution as there is less division, confusion and infighting in our class. This should be one of our top priorities!
Rudeboy
hardly brave
07.06.2006 15:33
Ok critisize, but I will NEVER run away from a fascist.
braveheart
Sorry, I got confused....
07.06.2006 23:23
But I'm obviously confused. See, I thought that the whole point was to find alternatives to old, useless, knuckleheaded tactics, and to use all these cool new toys and gadgets we have now to get organised and do something. Do something against violence, inequality and intimidation. This is the point I come unstuck, because, if you fight violence with violence, you tend to get... yeah....see, you are way ahead of me....
It's not like violence hasn't been tried, is it. It just doesn't work that well, but there's always a willing stream of new blood willing to give it a go. Good luck to you, but I would feel queasy about a victory won with bricks.
Sometimes the oppressed have to rise up violently for their liberty. That time is NOT here yet. If we can get this right, maybe it never will...
Sometimes there is no option for dialogue. Can't tick that box either.
Sometimes you don't have a whole legion of people on your side. That time is, like, SO not now.
I can't convince anyone that violence is wrong, as much as Id like. However, if you can't see why it's not going to help in this case, then you really aren't paying attention.
At the very least, we can be cleverer, surely? See, if it had been helium balloons with little kittens in baskets that sailed through that window, the reaction would have been much more interesting...
marvinmazz
One set of thugs...
08.06.2006 05:55
How quaint.
How pointless.
I guess it is meant to be thus.
Whatever meathead stereotype you wish to ascribe
little kittens v rocks
08.06.2006 09:15
concerned of gipton
solidarity
08.06.2006 09:25
Keep yourselves tidy.
!No pasaran!
anon
D'oh
08.06.2006 09:39
Read some fucking history you morons.
Rudeboy
Braveheart?
08.06.2006 10:46
Spiderman
Query
08.06.2006 13:20
John
So brave
08.06.2006 13:36
Unfortunately double glazing prevented the brick from coming all the way through and the meeting continued until the end. Harrogate stood only one candidate in the last local elections, but thanks to this, 12 more agreed to stand next time. British people wont be bullied by gutless thugs who run away after they have lobbed a brick into a room of hard working local people. Without you realising, your actions have helped move the BNP on in the town by five years - thanks.
You dont beleive me i know, but wait and see. It will make national news. BNP stand thirteen candidates in ultra yuppie Harrogate.
Thanks for your actions, every little bit helps. Keep up the good work and we will see you next month.
Nick Cass
..|..
08.06.2006 14:08
popadom
bricking it
08.06.2006 15:30
History, you say? That's quite a big subject, care to narrow it down?
My point is be smarter, not harder. They'll judge us on what we do, same as we do them. Read their response, genuine or not, it backs up what the doves on here have been saying. This is what they want.
Peace, anyone?
m
marvinmazz
Fao nick cass
08.06.2006 17:43
concerned of gipton
hey John
08.06.2006 23:01
green 'n' black
What a shambles
08.06.2006 23:26
And time people calling themselves anti-fascists stopped turning themselves into fascists.
And time both lots woke up to the very real Fascists who now control the Labour Party and are building Global Fascism as planned by a Fascist conspiracy that also has tentacles into the Lib Dems, and probably into all the other Parties too. And yes, that is so serious people might have to turn themselves into Fascists to stop that. But be honest about it.
Someone called for working class solidarity. For some that would mean joining with those who were shooting us dead in the Revolution. and besides the British working class is now pretty solidly middle class. Never mind, Globalization will soon reduce their living standards as the jobs all drain out of Britain, inflation destroys the currency, and political idiocy destroys Brittish Agriculture's capacity to feed our population. - Good farms are having subsidies to turn into Parks around the planning accelerated 'important' houses of the Rich. Trees and Riparian Zones reduce the food supply (to enable the bosses to be sure of control?).
Ilyan
Wow! We're so impressed!
09.06.2006 11:22
No Pasaran! (hey! is that cool or what)
Nestor's Left Testicle Aged 13 3/4
Cass my arse!
09.06.2006 14:13
Arthur
brid boys win again
09.06.2006 22:46
infultrator spotter
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12.06.2006 16:10
Adolf Hitler
Rudeboy
Adolf
15.06.2006 08:43
As for throwing a few bricks through windows where the BNP are holding a meeting...fucking BIG DEAL. In the 70's the meeing would have been heavily picketed, so no one got into the place.......we are going backwards and I despire....the working class need orgainsing so mass action can be taken.
Rocky
You are so brave-NOT
19.06.2006 14:47
The Brick Catcher
U R A LIAR
02.08.2006 13:44
LILY
If I had been at the meeting
19.08.2006 08:30
MT
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